Biomedical subjects

J Teperi

Publications and source records attributed to J Teperi.

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PubMed1991

Controlled trial on medical birth notification design.

In a controlled trial, two different forms were compared with respect to thoroughness of completing medical data on procedures during pregnancy, labor, and in newborns. The contents of 547 forms filled in by hospital personnel were compared to data abstracted from hospital records by trained research assistants. Forms with open-ended questions lacked information on 29% of the most common procedures and forms with a check-box format 9%. The results support the use of the check-box format in routine collection of data on common medical procedures.

Birth Certificates↗

PubMed1989

Menstrual pain, health and behaviour in girls.

Prevalence of menstrual pain, use of medication and school absenteeism due to the pain were studied by means of a mailed questionnaire in a sample representing 12-18-year-old girls in Finland (n = 3370, response rate 87%). Prevalence of menstrual pain was 48% among 12-year-old post-menarcheal girls and 79% among 18-year-olds. Thirty percent of the 16-year-old girls had used medication and 21% had stayed at home due to menstrual pain in the last 6 months; 3% had both been absent and used medication several times. Three types of factors were associated with menstrual pain: (1) physiological (gynaecological age, duration of menstrual flow); (2) indicators of poor self-rated health (not feeling active in the morning, bad physical condition, number of common colds); (3) unhealthy practices (consumption of alcohol, low physical activity, smoking). The prevalence of menstrual pain did not correlate with the variables describing the place of residence or the socio-economic status of the family. The determinants of menstrual pain are supposed to lie more in the biological construct and micro-environment of the girls than in macro-level structures of the society. The experience of pain seems to be related to self-rated health as a whole and to lifestyle rather than to specific disorders and health practices.

Absenteeism↗

PubMed1989

Respiratory symptoms and low tar cigarette smoking--a longitudinal study on young people.

Longitudinal data on the effect of low tar cigarette smoking on respiratory symptoms was collected from a sample of Finnish young people born in 1966, by mailed questionnaires in 1979, 1983 and 1985. Cough was 3 to 6 times more common than expected after starting smoking low tar brands (1-10 mg tar). The increase in cough was the same as with those who started middle tar cigarette smoking (11-18 mg). Before starting smoking, the low tar cigarette smokers did not report more symptoms than the middle tar or nonsmokers. After a few years smoking cough and phlegm were 2 to 3 times more common in the low tar cigarette smokers than in the non-smokers but on the same level as in the middle tar cigarette smokers. Tar yield was not a significant predictor of symptoms in logistic regression analysis.

Adolescent↗